Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-16
THE PUBLIC SQUARES.
The City Still Possesses Them, as Received
from John A. Suffer. .Ir

The City Still Possesses Them. as Received
from John A. Suffer. Jr.
Recently well-known legal gentleman
was in the City Assessors office, and hap
pened to notice that on an old map of that
official the block between P and Q, Tween
ty-first and Twenty-second streets, was
designated as public square, while two
years later it was marked as assessed to T.
J. Clunie. The fact was mentioned to City
Trustees Jones and Ryan, who happened
to be in the Auditors Office, and it was dis
cussed at the meeting of the Trustees last
Monday morning, the impression being
that through neglect of city officials at
some time Clunie, by tax title or other.
wise, had taken the city's property from
her. An investigation of the matter proves
this TO be an error The block in question
is not one of the public squares decided to
the city by John A. Suffer, Jr, ard
the city never had any title to it,
In the earlier days there was
large quantity of land in the eastern and
southeastern portions of the city that no
one seemed to claim, and when assessed to
unknown owners no one cared to buy in
for the taxes. 1t is probable that for years
the block in question was not assessed at
map as city property until some one laid
claim to it. AT the present time it is found,
in looking up title to some of the outlying
blocks that tax title is the best that can
be produced. The block between P and Q,
Twenty-6rst and Twenty-second streets, or
rather portion of it, is now assessed to
Mrs. Florence Clunie-who, those posted
in real estate matters say, has good title
to the lots forming the south half-while
the north half is assessed to Richard
O'Neil. Suffers deed TO the city, dated
January 2, 1919, acknowledged before
Frank Bates, first Alcalde, was for the fol-
lowing blocks
Between Twenty and Twenty
eighth, / and ] streets; Twenty-seventh
and Twenty-eighth, P and Q streets;
Twenty seventh and Twenty-eighth, b and
G streets, and between G and + streets;
Twenty-first and Twenty-second, B and c
streets; Fifteenth and Sixteenth, P and Q
streets; Fifteenth and Sixteenth, l and j
streets; between Fifteenth and Sixteenth,
b and G streets; between Ninth and Tenth |
2 and Q streets; between Ninth and Tenth |
| and J streets; between Ninth and Tenth |
B and c streets. The said public squares |
are hereby conveyed unto the present and |
future proprietors of town property in said |
city for the public use of the inhabitants |
of said city, to be applied to such public |
purposes as the future incorporate au-
thorities of said city from time to time |
declare and determine"
These blocks, so given, are still the prop |
erty of the city, and on the Assessors maps |
no one else is credited with any interest |
therein, excepting that between + and G, |
Twenty-seventh and Twenty eighth streets, |
which is claimed by the Hopping estate 1t |
will be noticed that in the deed it is spoken |
of as J." between F and G streets, no other |
boundaries being mentioned. From the |
context it would be presumed to be between |
f and G, Twenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth streets. Whether Mr.. Hopping held |
it because Of this flaw, and no one disput- |
ing his ownership, or through other title, |
we have been unable to ascertain.